OBJECTIVE: To evaluate women's health care providers' attitudes towards research in pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN: An online, anonymous survey given to health care providers and personnel directly involved in the care of pregnant women at 3 hospitals. The survey ascertained research involvement and attitudes toward both research in general and research on pregnant women. RESULTS: One hundred thirty-one people responded to the survey (27%). The majority of health care providers supported research, with 83.2% encouraging pregnant women to participate in a research study. However, there was a consistent difference between their attitudes toward encouraging others to participate while pregnant and whether or not they would consent themselves or have their partner consent to participate in research while pregnant. CONCLUSION: While women's health care workers are generally supportive of research in pregnancy, a discrepancy exists between what they would encourage others to do and what they would do. In order to promote recruitment of pregnant women into research studies, education of all health care workers involved in pregnant women's care should be a major focus.

en

dc.format

Article

en

dc.language

en

en

dc.source

eweb:331060

en

dc.subject

Attitudes

en

dc.subject

Consent

en

dc.subject

Education

en

dc.subject

Health

en

dc.subject

Health Care

en

dc.subject

Hospitals

en

dc.subject

Pregnant Women

en

dc.subject

Pregnancy

en

dc.subject

Research

en

dc.subject

Survey

en

dc.subject

Women's Health

en

dc.subject.classification

Research on Women

en

dc.title

Women's Health Care Providers' Attitudes Toward Research in Pregnancy

en

dc.provenance

Citation prepared by the Library and Information Services group of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University for the ETHXWeb database.

en

dc.provenance

Citation migrated from OpenText LiveLink Discovery Server database named EWEB hosted by the Bioethics Research Library to the DSpace collection EthxWeb hosted by DigitalGeorgetown.